[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 18 (Monday, May 8, 2000)]
[Pages 987-988]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13154--Establishing the Kosovo Campaign Medal

May 3, 2000

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including my authority as 
Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, it is 
hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Kosovo Campaign Medal. There is hereby established the 
Kosovo Campaign Medal with suitable appurtenances. Except as limited in 
section 2 of this order, and under uniform regulations to be prescribed 
by the Secretaries of the Military Departments and approved by the 
Secretary of Defense, or under regulations to be prescribed by the 
Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when it is

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not operating as a service in the Navy, the Kosovo Campaign Medal shall 
be awarded to members of the Armed Forces of the United States who serve 
or have served in Kosovo or contiguous waters or airspace, as defined by 
such regulations, after March 24, 1999, and before a terminal date to be 
prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.
    Sec. 2. Relationship to Other Awards. Notwithstanding section 3 of 
Executive Order 10977 of December 4, 1961, establishing the Armed Forces 
Expeditionary Medal and section 3 of Executive Order 12985 of January 
11, 1996, establishing the Armed Forces Service Medal, any member who 
qualified for those medals by reasons of service in Kosovo between March 
24, 1999, and May 1, 2000, shall remain qualified for those medals. Upon 
application, any such member may be awarded the Kosovo Campaign Medal in 
lieu of the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal or the Armed Forces Service 
Medal, but no person may be awarded more than one of these three medals 
by reason of service in Kosovo, and no person shall be entitled to more 
than one award of the Kosovo Campaign Medal.
    Sec. 3. Posthumous Award. The Kosovo Campaign Medal may be awarded 
posthumously to any person covered by and under regulations prescribed 
in accordance with the first section of this order.
                                            William J. Clinton
 The White House,
 May 3, 2000.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:45 a.m., May 4, 
2000]

 Note:  This Executive order was published in the  Federal Register  on 
May 5.